Merchandise-hook.



No. 812,235. PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906.

I J. A. A. ROULEAU. I

MERCHANDISE HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH ARTHUR ANTHIME ROULEAU, OF ST. OUNEGONDE, CANADA,

ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES HUGH JAMES BOWDEN, OF

MONTREAL, CANADA.

MERCHANDISE-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

To all whom/ it nbay concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ARTHUR AN- THIME ROULEAU, of St. Cunegonde, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Merchandise-Hooks and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a device whereby rolls of paper, heavy bales, barrels, or the like, and particularly large rolls of paper or other comparatively easilydamaged pieces of merchandise, may be handled more readily than heretofore and without being damaged.

My invention may be said briefly to consist of a main bar having at one side an elongated handle adapted to be gripped by one or two persons and at its other side a plurality of bent and transversely serrated fingers adapted to be hooked over and engage a piece of merchandise without damaging the same.

For full comprehension, however, of my invention reference must be had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts, and wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved merchandise-hook. Fig. 2 is atransverse vertical sectional view therebf, taken on line AA, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof, and Figs. 4 and 5 are views illustrating the manner of using the same.

My improved merchandise-hook consists of a main bar I), having at one side an elongated handle 0 with semicircular ends (1, merging into the ends of the main bar, while braces 6 connect the main bar I) to the straight portion of the handle 0. A block f is secured by screws g or otherwise to or formed in one with the main bar I) and acts as a guard to support the handle proper away from the roll of paper or other piece of merchandise being handled, thus afiording room for the fingers of the shipper. A pair of bent fingers h and h project from the opposite side of the main bar I), one near each end thereof. They are preferably curved, as at i, to lie in the same plane as the bearing-surface f of the block f, and the end portions thereof are bent, as at 7c, to extend at substantially right angles to the said bearing-surface and the handle. These fingers act as hooks to grip the roll of paper or other piece of merchandise, and to prevent them slipping and tearing or otherwise damaging the same they are transversely serrated, as at m. These fingers h and h are set in different angular positions relatively to one another to allow the serrated faces m to conform more closely to the roll of paper, or the like, being handled. The advantage of having the pair of hooks, which may be inserted beneath a roll or cask lying on its side, is that they will prevent the latter from rolling while being lifted.

What I claim is as follows:

1. The improved merchandise-hook consisting of a main bar with a plurality of bent fingers at one side, a handle portion at the opposite side and a guard projection on the bar substantially as described.

2. The improved merchandise-hook consisting of a bearing-bar with a pair of fingers at one side such fingers being disposed with the portions thereof contiguous to the bar in the same plane as the bearing-face. of the latter, and the sides of their bent ends toward such bar serrated, and a handle portion upon the side of the bar opposite to the finger and extending in the plane of the said opposite side for the purpose of providing a space between the plane in which the handle lies and the plane of the said bearing-face of the bar substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH ARTHUR ANTHIME ROULEAU.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM P. MoFEAT, FRED. J. SEARs. 

